BLURRED VISION - WARNING SIGN OF DIABETES

Mostly diabetes lies dormant for several years without diagnosis and detection. When a person is diagnosed with this chronic illness the chances are that diabetic complications have already set in. It is important to go through routine blood checks to ensure that blood sugar levels are in range. The necessary precautions check the risk of diabetic complications which otherwise can affect other body parts like foot, blood vessels, eye, kidney, nerves and heart.

If you or your loved one is experiencing blurred vision, eye pain or sudden loss of vision you must not put off the doctor’s visit. As these are the symptoms of eye related diabetic complications.

If there is a high level of sugar in blood, the blood vessels of retina may subject to damage; this result in diabetic retinopathy. When the weakened blood vessels of eye leak some fluid, it causes eyes to swell. This swelling leads to blurred vision.

The blurredvision is the warning sign of diabetes; it alarms the person that something is going wrong. You must plan a doctor’s visit. If the doctor’s visit is postponed the situation may get worse as the retina can be stretched even further from other eye parts; the result is the complete blindness.

Giving importance to this warning sign of diabetes in time can retard diabetic neuropathy by laser treatment.